According to the Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum (Sept. 2), commenting on President Bush’s convention acceptance speech, “His biggest applause line of the night came when he took a shot at trial lawyers.” Drum terms this “weird” and doesn’t understand why the issue might resonate so, however. While on the subject of the Washington Monthly, it has a symposium on a Bush second term which includes a Grover Norquist article predicting dramatic setbacks at the national level for the trial bar if GWB is re-elected, which would certainly be a change from the lack of same in his first term. And in Florida, former housing secretary and former president of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers Mel Martinez prevailed in a hard-fought primary against former Rep. Bill McCollum (see Feb. 21, May 6) with a campaign so nasty as to cause the St. Petersburg Times to withdraw its previous endorsement of Martinez; Democrat Betty Castor will be his opponent in November (editorial, Aug. 30; Miami Herald, Sept. 1).
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According to the Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum (Sept. 2), commenting on President Bush’s convention acceptance speech, “His biggest applause line of the night came when he took a shot at trial lawyers.” Drum terms this “weird” and doesn’t understand why the issue might resonate so, however. While on the subject of the Washington Monthly, it […]
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